# Howdy Stranger

> A simple toolbar button to clear out all cookies, local storage, and session storage for the current tab's domain.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/howdy-stranger](https://chrome-stats.com/d/howdy-stranger)

## Overview

- **ID:** `howdy-stranger`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Damn Interesting
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 40
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Last updated:** 2021-01-22
- **First published:** 2020-10-07
- **Size:** 16 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/howdy-stranger/)
- **Website:** [https://www.damninteresting.com/howdy-stranger/](https://www.damninteresting.com/howdy-stranger/)

## Description

Howdy Stranger is a Firefox add-on that allows you to clear all cookies, local storage, and session storage for the current tab's domain. It provides a clean slate for browsing and logs you out of all sites on the domain.

## Rankings

- #18,051 — Overall
- #96 — range

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `cookies`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/howdy-stranger)